Jeanerette News

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The Upper Lafayette Economic Development Foundation will hold its next meeting at 7:30 a.m. July 15 at the Acadiana Hills Country Club.

When Hurricane Gustav damaged Iberia Parish's community parks, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Louisiana Recovery Authority and local officials realized the parks' importance and worked together to repair them.

The Jeanerette City Oridinance-Section 11-4019, prohibits the sale of fireworks in the city limits and it prohibits to shooting of fireworks.

God entrusted Anthony to Ines' care when she was sixteen. Fearful her boyfriend's family would take Anthony away from her; she married a man she barely knew.

Two legislative committees will have to approve territories drawn up to set rates charged by the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

Money, new schools, square footage and millages were all topics of discussion Wednesday at the regular Iberia Parish School Board meeting.

A bill to launch a public safety campaign about Chinese seafood is going to the governor's desk.

Gil Dupre, left, chief executive officer of the Louisiana Association of Health Plans, and Jennifer McMahon, right, of the Louisiana Hospital Association, sit with state Sen.

Authorities are on the scene of an accident in Jeanerette. The wreck is near the intersection of U.S. Route 90 and Hubertville Road.

A 15-cent monthly surcharge should be levied on Internet access across Louisiana to fight online criminal activity, the House voted 81-9 Thursday, over the opposition of Gov.

The New Iberia School Board approved revisions and handed out recognitions during its regular Wednesday night meeting.

Police have arrested two men they say robbed a Dollar Store in Jeanerette and got away with more than $3,000 in cash.

A bill that would prohibit insurance companies from hitting homeowners with more than one deductible for each named storm that damages their homes sailed out of the Senate Insurance Committee on Thursday despite warnings from insurance regulators that premiums may increase as much as 6 percent in coastal parishes.

If the worm that is the state Legislature were ever going to turn, it would have happened last week.

A surplus of more than $75 million left in an insurance incentive program should not be distributed to homeowners as required by law, a Senate committee decided today.

A Jeanerette teen has been arrested folowing an early morning robbery at a New Iberia fast food restaurant.

Homeowners holding policies with the state-run insurer of last resort would see their premiums increased less or possibly decreased under a bill unanimously approved Wednesday by the Senate Insurance Committee.

Property ownership for two defunct schools in Iberia Parish was recently put into question.

The Interstate 49 South Task Force, headed by Lafayette City-Parish President Joey Durel, will meet from 10 a.m. until noon Tuesday at the West St.